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Vermont’s D.C. delegation ready to get back to work

Source: Brattleboro Reformer, Nov 10 2012, 12:25am CST

BRATTLEBORO -- The members of Vermont's congressional delegation were happy about the results of Tuesday's election, but all three admitted there's a lot of hard work to be done, both in the lame-duck Congress set to reconvene next week and in its 113th ...

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16 hours ago

Falling US deficit renews austerity or growth debate

Source: Channel News Asia  |   May 18 2013, 9:42am CDT

WASHINGTON: Austerity or growth? Europe's struggling economies have faced the question without fully answering it in recent years, but the United States is on track to do both. Projections unveiled this wee ...

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22 hours ago

Obama’s budget would cut $1 trillion from US deficit

Source: Economic Times  |   May 18 2013, 3:34am CDT

WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama's budget proposal, if enacted into law, would cut more than $1.1 trillion from the government's projected deficits over the next 10 years, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said Friday. It would bring de ...

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27 weeks ago


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"Filibusters and anonymous holds allow a lot of people to get away with doing nothing"


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1 day ago

Obama budget cuts deficits $1.1T by 2023

Source: Sun Journal  |   May 17 2013, 10:17pm CDT

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's budget would trim projected federal deficits by $1.1 trillion over the coming decade, using nearly $6 in higher revenues for every $1 in reduced spending to achieve it, Congress' nonpartisan budget analyst ...

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Obama budget would cut deficits, report says

Source: Los Angeles Times  |   May 17 2013, 4:54pm CDT

The outlook from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office comes as the government is set to reach its debt limit on Saturday, forcing the White House and Congress back to the negotiating table to work out a long-term budget plan that raises ...

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Obama budget cuts deficit $1.1 trillion over decade CBO

Source: Reuters Mobile  |   May 17 2013, 4:39pm CDT

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1 day ago

House Republicans Are Right to Focus on Spending Cuts as Part of Debt Ceiling Increase

Source: The Heritage Foundation  |   May 17 2013, 3:15pm CDT

This week, the House Republican conference met to discuss what their priority will be in connection with any vote to increase the debt ceiling. This is timely since the current suspension of the debt limit expires tomorr ...

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1 day ago

CBO: Obama budget cuts deficits $1.1T by 2023

Source: AzFamily.com  |   May 17 2013, 3:02pm CDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress' nonpartisan budget analyst says President Barack Obama's budget would trim projected federal deficits by $1.1 trillion over the coming decade. The Congressional Budget Office said Friday that after ...

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1 day ago

This is the only graph you need on Washington’s budget debate

Source: The Washington Post  |   May 17 2013, 2:43pm CDT

The Congressional Budget Office released their analysis of President Obama’s 2014 budget proposal today. The bottom line? It more than solves our deficit problem for the next decade, and for some time beyond that. And unlike the status quo — w ...

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2 days ago

Is Tax Reform Doomed? A Debate.

Source: Bloomberg.com  |   May 16 2013, 3:31pm CDT

Last month, Sean West of the Eurasia Group wrote for the Ticker that the prospects for tax reform were dim. Democratic Senator Max Baucus and Republican Representative Dave Camp, who head the relevant tax committees in Congress, had just agreed to purs ...

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